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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Book Trailer Reveal + GIVEAWAY + Excerpt = The Flame in the Mist by Kit Grindstaff

TODAY we are doing a special BOOK TRAILER REVEAL!!! Thanks to Mod Podge Blog Tours for letting us host the trailer reveal for the MG Fantasy book The Flame in the Mist by Kit Grindstaff . Which comes out: April 9th 2013.

I'm so happy to take part in this because I can NOT WAIT for this book to come out already! Plus that cover is rocking and YA Fantasy?COUNT ME IN! Continue for more...

First about the book:

PUB DATE: April 9th 2013

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Genre: MG Fantasy

Pages: 464 (O_O)

Set in an imagined past, this dark fantasy-adventure is for fans of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass. Features Jemma, a fiery-headed heroine held captive in Agromond Castle, yet destined to save mist-shrouded Anglavia.

Fiery-headed Jemma Agromond is not who she thinks she is, and when the secrets and lies behind her life at mist-shrouded Agromond Castle begin to unravel, she finds herself in a chilling race for her life. Ghosts and misfits, a stone and crystals, a mysterious book, an ancient prophecy—all these reveal the truth about Jemma's past and a destiny far greater and more dangerous than she could have imagined in her wildest fantasies.

With her telepathic golden rats, Noodle and Pie, and her trusted friend, Digby, Jemma navigates increasingly dark forces, as helpers both seen and unseen, gather.

But in the end, it is her own powers that she must bring to light, for only she has the key to defeating the evil ones and fulfilling the prophecy that will bring back the sun and restore peace in Anglavia.

Here it is - The Trailer:

There's evil-a coming from up on the hill

If the Mist doesn't get you, the Agromonds will.

—From an old Anglavian rhyme

EXCERPT:

Thunder roared, and lightning speared down. In its brief flashes, Jemma could see more shadows gathering. They looked like pale Mordsprites, small, bedraggled, skeletal.

She lengthened her stride, but the ground was slick and she slipped, slamming face down in black mud. Hauling herself to her feet yet again, she came face to face with one of the shadows.

It was not a Mordsprite at all, but the gray silhouette of a child, a sunken-cheeked, hollow-eyed boy of no more than five, his ragged arms reaching out to her through the Mist.

Jemma stood petrified, her heart pounding as he swayed closer, oblivious to the chaos raining down around him. Others closed in behind him, a straggling band of waifs, all moving in the same direction.

Toward her.

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About the Author:

Kit Grindstaff was born near London, and grew up in the rolling countryside of England. After a brush with pop stardom (under her maiden name, Hain) she moved to New York and embarked on her career as a pop song writer.

Kit now lives with her husband in the rolling countryside of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the SCBWI. The Flame In The Mist is her first novel.